{"id":16864,"date":"2009-12-23T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_health_care_bill_analysis_bitter_pill_to_come_before_relief_is_felt\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:34:42","slug":"ap_health_care_bill_analysis_bitter_pill_to_come_before_relief_is_felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16864","title":{"rendered":"AP Health Care Bill Analysis: Bitter pill to come before relief is felt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are close to pushing through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed taxes and fees on upper-income earners, insurers, even tanning parlors, take effect quickly. So would Medicare cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits, such as subsidies for lower middle-income households, consumer protections for all and eliminating the prescription coverage gap for seniors, come gradually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be an expectations gap, no question about that,&#8221; said Drew Altman, president of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. &#8220;People are going to see their premiums and out-of-pocket costs go up before the tangible benefits kick in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/23\/bitter-pill-to-come-before-relief-is-felt\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are close to pushing through Congress. Proposed taxes and fees on upper-income earners, insurers, even tanning parlors, take effect quickly. So would Medicare cuts. Benefits, such<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16864\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,670,582,589,149,104,617,616,151,667,618,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}